Why this will never turn into a knitting blog

I love knitting I really do.  I love the feel of wool, the excitement of starting a new project.  The sheer potential contained in the ball of wool.  I love looking at patterns and knitting blogs.  However, this is the reality after starting my latest project.  Very slow progress indeed. 

I haven't knitted anything substantial for quite a few years, so maybe I 'm a little out of practice.   A little hint would be in the re-wound ball of wool.  There are two more of those.

For such a simple pattern as the one I chose, it is very easy (for me)  to make a mistake.  Six purl, six plain and then next row knit the purl stitches and purl the knit stitches.  Sounds very simple right!?

The object is to have a definite vertical rib repeated throughout.  Straight lines.  Straight lines that if one stitch is out, that will be continued in the next row and the next row will not be straight.  Do you see what I mean? 

So I have taken to checking each row when I finish it.  This is why I have been working on this for ummm 3 weeks or so, and this is all I have to show for it!  Lovely wool, really nice to work with, and luckily not showing the ill effects of re-knitting.  Here are some of the ones I haven't wrecked yet.  .

At one stage it was nearly 40cm, and I pulled it out and started again.  I may be a slow knitter, but combine with a fussy knitter, it is making it a very slow project. It will be a buttoned longer waistcoat for my husband when it is finished.  Stay tuned it should be finished by winter 2012 at this rate.

Here are some of our first picked mandarins.  Still looking a little green, but fine to eat and juice.

 

So I thought I'd take a photo of our fruit bowl when I realised that everything in there was home grown.

Then (because I secretly fancy myself as a food photographer) this is a snap of my lunch yesterday.  Only thing homegrown in that was the avocado.  However, as I've mentioned before, that in itself is a success - we've waited a long time for home grown avocado.    Maybe it's too late for a career change, should keep my day job.

 

Absolutely magic day here. I'm off on a bit of a drive to collect some bantam chickens today.  That should make Little Banty happy.   Will show photos when they are settled.

cheers for now

Wendy